Br. Josiah Benedict

Brother Benedict earned his B.S. degree at St. Mary's College in Winona, Minnesota in 1948. His first teaching assignment took him to Price College in Amarillo, Texas, where he taught mathematics as he did most of his assignment at De La Salle High School in Minneapolis and a year later at De La Salle Military Academy in Kansas City, where he spent five years. His last assignment in the United States was teaching in the Juniorate at Glencoe in 1957. A year later he was assigned to De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. He spent the remainder of his life, forty-seven years, in the Philippines, as a principal, dean, vice-president, and special advisor to Provincials and presidents. He died at age seventy-six, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-three years.